Cabin Roadside Art – A Unique Welcome
Our first post of Cottage Roadside Art is still popular today with 1000s of views. Here are a few more of our favorites.
Tag: Michigan
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Michigan is known as the Great Lakes State. Surrounded by five of the six Great Lakes. ThumbWind has a number of stories devoted to Michigan places, food, and places to visit. Here are a few to explore
Pigeon Michigan Amusement Parlor c1900
This picture of a street scene in Pigeon, Michigan is thought to be taken right around 1900. The amusement parlor or penny arcade was popular in the 1890s through the early 1900s. These storefront shops were stocked with slot machines, phonographs, …
The Big Views of Fish Point Wildlife Area
Known for the ability for birders to get up close to wildlife and offer amazing views, the Fish Point Wildlife Area is a large sanctuary. With over 3,700 acres and including about seven miles along the Saginaw Bay shoreline.
Then and Now – Platts Drugstore Port Sanilac
This historical Drugstore is deemed as being Michigan’s longest family owned continuously operating pharmacy in Michigan. It stands today as a boutique shop in Port Sanilac.
15 Things You Should Know About Visiting Michigan’s Sleeper State Park
Sleeper State Park was the first state park in the Thumb. With an excellent beach and camp sites it has been a place to camp and visit for over 95 years. Visitors can watch both sunrises and sunsets on Saginaw Bay, relax in the shade and seclusion of the campground or roam the trails of the ancient dune forests. It’s one of the most widely visited parks in Southeast Michigan. Yet still contains amazing secrets.
Kinde Michigan Grain Elevators and Depot
Kinde was once renowned as the “Bean Capital of the World“. Michigan white navy bean soup has been a staple for over one hundred years in the U.S. Senate dining room in the form of Senate bean soup
Port Austin Farm Market Opens with Few Vendors, Sparse Crowds
The opening of the summer season at the tip of the Thumb is usually Memorial Day weekend. However visitors to this near-north Michigan town look to be down. It could change the landscape of Michigan’s tourism industry this summer.
The Lake Huron Shipwreck of the Iron Chief
The picture post on our sister site about the huge dock in Forrestville gives rise to the question. Why did they name the boathouse the Iron Chief? A little exploring showed that there indeed was a ship with this unusual name but she was not made out of iron. Today, she lays in over a hundred feet of water off the shore of the Grindstone City in the Thumb Area Bottomland Preserve